State v. Ward

Loring, Chief Justice.

Defendant was charged by information with attempting to take beaver at a time when the taking thereof was unlawful. In another information he was charged with the unlawful possession of a raw beaver skin. By consent, he was tried on both charges in one trial before the same jury, which acquitted him of the possession of a raw beaver skin, but found him guilty of the attempt to take a beaver.

Defendant not only challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain his conviction of the attempt, but contends that the two informations were overlapping and therefore…